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THE WILLOUGHBYS AND RICKY GERVAIS

May 23 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

The Willoughbys starts like most animated movies. Its opening scene is of a colourful city full of featureless skyscrapers and skinny, irregularly-shaped people with sharp and pointy faces. It appears distinctly optimistic and designed to be the scene for...

EXTRACTION, POLITICALLY PROBLEMATIC BUT BRILLIANT ACTION FLICK

May 2 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Ever since TV became a common household product, everyone in the theatre industry has been counting the number of days when cinema would no longer appear on the big screen. Digital technology has greatly accelerated the trend toward home entertainment, wh...

Binge-watching: Time Well Killed

April 17 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

The opportunity to binge watch shows rarely presents itself. But times are different now. Most of us, depending on the sanity of our respective governments, are under some type of lockdown, and movie theatres across the world have been shutdown. Like all...

JOE EXOTIC'S EXOTIC SHOW

April 12 , 2020

The opportunity to binge watch shows rarely presents itself. But times are different now. Most of us, depending on the sanity of our respective governments, are under some type of lockdown, and movie theatres across the world have been shutdown. Like all...

CONTAGION: A PROPHESY

April 4 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Steven Soderbergh had been a prolific filmmaker who made movies on such a diverse range of subjects that he was at some point bound to predict the future. There will inevitably be a countless number of movies made about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19...

Enena Bete, Small but Innovative

March 28 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

In an ironic twist of fate, the best Ethiopian cinema has to offer is actually hidden from view, almost impossible to unearth and value. The likes of Teza and Lamb are lucky enough to find international recognition and thus local appreciation. But ther...

TEZA: THE SON, THE MOTHER AND THE NATION

March 21 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Good movies have a fascinating opening scene. Great movies have three of them. Teza opens with a dream-like sequence. There is a man, lost but determined. He seems to be taking his first steps toward self-discovery in a sunlit room, shrouded by cloth....

ONWARD: A RARE DISNEY ORIGINAL

March 14 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Some movies build on simple concepts and manage to communicate more about family, life, and what is important than the bulkiest novels. One such movie is Onward, a film that exemplifies what Disney represents in the cinematic pantheon and how much of its...

THE VISIBLE WOMAN

March 7 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

There is only one thing worse than a stalker - a stalker that is invisible. We are afraid of what we cannot see, but we are even more afraid of what can see us without being noticed. But the villain of The Invisible Man is not uninterested in being not...


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